Twitter Suspension – Twitter Suspending Accounts Today Due to Spam Cloud05 Jul
Did you try to login to Twitter today to find your account suspended? You’re not alone, it seems. This afternoon on Sunday, July 5th, 2009, Twitter.com suspended thousands of accounts on what they’re claiming is a “Spam Cloud” This suspension included @TryBPO.
What else can we expect from a free service that is probably horribly understaffed and overburdened. While Twitter is an amazing tool, until they find a way to make it profitable, I would imagine these suspensions and down-time will continue to get worse. It doesn’t help that there are people intent on bringing Twitter as a service to its knees.
Was your account suspended? Are you frustrated that you can’t get back in and worried about how long your suspension will take you down for? You can ReTweet this (Ok, so maybe you can’t right now…had to tease you a bit…all in good fun) or sign off below so that we can let them know what accounts were wrongfully suspended.
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I am one of the hundred if not thousands disabled. Never have done anything to violate the rules, but still am not back up. Tried to submit a request and after sending it, it states there are “no open requests”.
All in all, I am glad I am not the only one being suspended, but on the other hand it sure seems Twitter needs to develop a better policy that cutting off tons of users when something like this happens.
Here’s hoping I get restored soon!
Hi. I’m a professional who being relatively new to Twitter by a few months, began to garner followers and vise-versa, via this social medium. I enjoyed the fact that legitimate spammers often got caught.
However, my message is for the unwarranted, suddenly suspended fellows like myself. I just hate that the suspension page looks so bad to people who may want to, or have been following.
I’m an honest, jovial CEO, webmaster, mentor, and publisher. I’ve put my heart and effort in many of my tweets. They are for real, so that’s why I’m going to say this also:
When I come across a twitter account page that says “mosey on along” or whatnot, that almost gives me an inkling or an instant cause to judge the person that I don’t know and wonder, “What criminal activity has this person got caught for? Can this person be harmful if I am I linked to this person somewhere else?”
We all are inundated with internet scams, so those questions above are legit and subsequently, Twitter can hurt someone’s reputation when improperly suspending them.
Basically I think an improperly suspended account is more like “online slander.” I’m proposing a Twitter use a separate message for inconclusive, temporary account problems.
I wish I could thank everyone it mattered to for following me after my ridiculous ousting. To all the quality tweeters out there, stay real!
If Twitter decides to reinstate my account, which I’m sure they would enjoy my tweets too if they did, Now, I’ll probably end up shutting it down anyhow.
I don’t want to go through this again, especially after working on establishing online relationships. The owners need to take more moments to figure out their network bottlenecks, and well, “tweak twitter.”
Fortunately for me, it’s quite okay that their action was not right. Something “clicked” with me after this happened with my account suspension, and, sorry to say, but I just realized how unimportant Twitter is to my social life. No, I wouldn’t have felt this way if that hadn’t happened.
Sure Twitter can be a great leverage tool for marketing. To that end, I think it’s cleaver. Oprah mentions Twitter,and its social power skyrockets even more.
On the flip side of that though, it could also be very bad for a person who is building a reputation with thousands, or millions of “reciprocal” followers perhaps, just to find one day that their account suddenly got whacked.
Regardless, it doesn’t really matter all that much anyhow.
Actually, I laughed when I found out about it. It’s Twitter’s loss. Hopefully this post doesn’t come off vindictive, because it’s okay, and I’m voicing a potential problem with people who want the best out of social media.
Lastly, the experience is not even a minute problem for me, especially in comparison to the scheme of real problems people have to embrace in their everyday lives.
Lonn Turner
Update: It appears @TryBPO is back up and running. Make sure to check and see if your account is as well. If not, post here and we’ll make some noise for you.
Crystal – It does seem Twitter needs to do something better than shotgunning innocent users because of a “Spam Cloud”. What is a spam cloud, anyway?
Lonn – We understand how frustrated you are. Check again, your Twitter account might be back already.
Super post, Need to mark it on Digg
Thanks
SonyaSunny
Please let me back in Twitter, I don’t know what I did wrong…@ least have the courtesy to tell me!
@Denis
Have you tried contacting Twitter directly?
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